Child Health

• Children’s Environmental Health resources provided by the World Health Organization.
• Dimmock, S., et al. (2011). Together with children – for children: A guide for non-governmental organizations accompanying children in CRC reporting. NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child. (1.79 Mb pdf)
• Save the Children UK. (2012). The child development index 2012: Progress, challenges and inequality.
• The state of the world’s children, UNICEF (1996-current). Library has copies: 362.7 G767s.

Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases

• Beaglehole, R., et al. (2011). UN high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases: Addressing four questions. The Lancet, 378. (StFX only)
• Kamal-Yanni, M. (2012). Salt, sugar, and malaria pills: How the affordable medicine facility-malaria endangers public health. (Oxfam Briefing Paper 163). Oxfam GB.
• Schneider, M., et al. (2011). Elimination of neglected diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: A mapping of selected diseases. PloS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 5(2).

Community-Driven Health Impact Assessment

• Bean, W. (2000). Community development and adult education: Locating practice in its roots. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 85, 67-76. (StFX only)
• Chilaka, M. A. & Ndioho, I. (2014). Strategies and incentives for enhancing the application of health impact assessment (HIA) in Nigeria: A view from those who should know. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education. (StFX only)
• Eaton, S., St-Pierre, L. & Ross, M.-C. (2009). Influencing healthy public policy with community health impact assessment. National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy. (428K pdf)
• Elliott, E. & Francis, S. (2005). Making effective links to decision-making: Key challenges for health impact assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 25, 7-8, 747-757. (StFX only)
• Ghosh, S. & Cameron, C. (2006). Strengthening communities through community health impact assessment. Presented at the Strength Based Strategies conference, Hyderabad, India, November 10-12. (32K pdf)
• Kearney, M. (2004). Walking the walk? Community participation in HIA: A qualitative interview study. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 24(2), 217-229. (StFX only)
• Lee, J. L., Robbel, N. & Dora, C. (2013). Cross-country analysis of the institutionalization of health impact assessment (Social determinants of health discussion paper 8). WHO. (787K pdf)
• Mahoney, M. E., Potter, J.-L. & Marsh, R. S. (2007). Community participation in HIA: Discords in teleology and terminology. Critical Public Health, 17(3), 229-241. (StFX only)
• Metcalfe, O. & Higgins, C. (2009). Health impact assessment contributing to healthy public policy. Public Health, 123(4), 295. (StFX only)
• Mindell, J. S., Boltong, A. & Forde, I. (2008). A review of health impact assessment frameworks. Public Health, 122(11), 1177-1187. (StFX only)
• South, J. (2015). A guide to community-centered approaches for health and wellbeing: Briefing. Public Health England. (101K pdf)

Climate Change & Food Security

• Fook, A. (2011). Gender, IFIs, and food insecurity. Gender Action. (1.28 Mb pdf)
• The Gaia Foundation works against climate change in Africa, South America, Asia and Europe by regenerating ecosystems, enhancing traditional knowledge and practices and strengthening community self-governance.
• Government Office for Science. (2011). The future of food and farming: Challenges and choices for global sustainability: final project report. (4.26 Mb pdf)
• Institute for Food and Development Policy / Food First analyzes the causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and develops solutions.
• Naylor, R., et al. (2007). The ripple effect: Biofuels, food security and the environment. Environment, 49(9), 31-43. (StFX only)
• Portier, C.J., et al. (2010). A human health perspective on climate change: A report outlining the research needs on the human health effects of climate change. Environmental Health Perspectives and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. (5.0 Mb pdf)
• Reid, H., et al. (Eds.). (2009). Community-based adaptation to climate change. PLA Notes, no. 60. (1.37 Mb pdf)
• WHYHunger is a leader in the fight against global hunger and poverty. It strives to end hunger and poverty by connecting people to nutritious, affordable food and by supporting grassroots initiatives that inspire community empowerment.

Community Development and Health

• Apusigah, A. (2005). Diagnosing poverty in northern Ghana: Institutional versus community views. Ghana Journal of Development Studies, 2(2), 1-14.
• Chile, L., & Simpson, G. (2004). Spirituality and community development: Exploring the link between the individual and the collective. Community Development Journal 39(4), 318-331. (StFX only)
• Fraser, H. (2005). Four different approaches to community participation. Community Development Journal, 40(3), 286-300. (StFX only)
• Harvey, P., & Reed, R. (2007). Community managed water supplies in Africa: Sustainable or dispensable? Community Development Journal, 42(3), 365-378. (StFX only)
• Kane, M. (2008). The World Bank, community development and education for social justice. Community Development Journal, 43(2), 194-209. (StFX only)
• Kuenzi, M. (2006). Non-formal education and community development in Senegal. Community Development Journal, 41(2), 210-222. (StFX only)
• Morrison, V. (2015). Health inequalities and intersectionality (Briefing note). National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy. (667K pdf)
• Tesoriero, F. (2005). Strengthening communities through women’s self-help groups in South India. Community Development Journal, 41(3), 321-333. (StFX only)
• University of Kansas. (2011). Community tool box. A resource that promotes community health and development by providing essential skills for building healthy communities.
• Ward, C., et al. (2008). Framing development: Community and NGO perspectives in Mali. Community Development Journal, 44(4), 470-487. (StFX only)
• Williams, L. (2004). Culture and community development: Towards new conceptualizations and practice. Community Development Journal, 39(4), 345-359. (StFX only)

Community Health Organizations

• Antigonish Women’s Resource Centre & Sexual Assault Services Association
• Human Impact Partners is transforming the policies and places people need to live healthy lives.
• International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) is a global network on best practice in the use of impact assessment.
• Social determinants of health and health inequalities, Government of Canada.
• Wales Health Impact Assessment Support Unit (WHIASU)
• Wellesley Institute engages in research, policy and community mobilization to advance population health.

Community Health Toolkits and Training Manuals

• Kemm, J. (2001). Health impact assessment: A tool for healthy public policy. Health Promotion International, 16(1), 79-85. (StFX only)

Drug and Substance Abuse

• Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment (StFX only)
• Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, an open access journal.

Environment and Health

• Costello, A. et al. (2009). Managing the health effects of climate change. The Lancet, 373, 1693-1733. (StFX only)
• DARA. (2012). Climate vulnerability monitor: A guide to the cold calculus of a hot planet (2nd ed.). DARA.
• PAHO. (2013). Health, environment and sustainable development: Towards the future we want. PAHO. (3.58 Mb pdf)
• Pettit, J. (2004). Climate justice: A new social movement for atmospheric rights. IDS Bulletin, 35(3), 102-106. (StFX only)

Food Security / Nutrition

• Bunting, M. (2011, January 21). How can we feed the world and still save the planet? [Blog post].
• Committee on World Food Security (CFS). (2011). Global strategic framework for food security and nutrition: annotated outline. (125K pdf)
• Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) exchanges knowledge on food security and nutrition through online discussions.
• Hansen-Kuhn, K. (2011). Making U.S. trade policy serve global food security goals. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
• Global hunger index. Published annually by IFPRI (earlier editions) and Concern Worldwide.
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers. (2013). Global food: Waste not, want not.
• Kickbusch, I., et al. (2010). The food system: A prism of present and future challenges for health promotion and sustainable development. (1.92 Mb pdf)
• Patel, R. (2013, June 12). G8 vision for tackling hunger wilfully ignores the politics of malnutrition [Blog post].
• Right to Food, resources from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
• The state of food insecurity in the world, annual editions published by FAO.
• Urquhart, P. (2010). WFP and climate change: A review of ongoing experience and recommendations for action (World Food Programme occasional paper no. 23). World Food Programme. (530K pdf)
• World Food Programme. (2009). WFP gender policy: Promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women in addressing food and nutrition challenges. WFP. (1.50 Mb pdf)

Food Security Resources

• FAO. (2013). Resilient livelihoods: Disaster risk reduction for food and nutrition security. (2.27 Mb pdf)
• IDS. (2012). Standing on the threshold: Food justice in India [Podcast].
• IDS. (2012). Standing on the threshold: Food justice in India [Video]. IDS Director Lawrence Haddad and Oxfam India’s Biraj Swain discuss the new IDS Bulletin on food justice in India. (6:19 min.)
• Sachs, C. & Alston, M. (2010). Global shifts, sedimentations, and imaginaries: An introduction to the special issue on women and agriculture. Signs, 35(2), 277-287. (StFX only)
• Swain, B. (2012, July 16). Fighting for food security in India [Blog post].
• La Via Campesina, international peasant’s movement.
• The world according to Monsanto, a documentary about biotech company Monsanto’s control over the seed and food chain. [Video]. (109 min.)

Gender

• The global gender gap report 2024. World Economic Forum.
• Greig, A. (2009). Troublesome masculinities: Masculinity in trouble. IDS Bulletin, 40(1), 69-76. (StFX only)
• UNDP & AusAID. (2009). The gendered dimensions of disaster risk management and adaptation to climate change: Stories from the Pacific. UNDP Pacific Centre. (973K pdf)

Globalization and Health

• Labonte, R. & Gagnon, M. (2010). Framing health and foreign policy: Lessons for global health diplomacy. Globalization and Health, 6(14).
• Labonte, R. & Sanger, M. (2006). Glossary of the World Trade Organisation and public health: Part 1. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60. (192K pdf) (StFX only)
• Labonte, R., Mohindra, K. & Lencucha, R. (2011). Framing international trade and chronic disease. Globalization and Health, 7(21). (403K pdf)
• Milner, A., et al. (2011). Globalisation and suicide: An empirical investigation in 35 countries over the period 1980-2006. Health & Place, 17(4), 996-1003. (StFX only)
• Ravishankar, N., et al. (2009). Financing of global health: Tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007. The Lancet, 373/9681, 2113-2124. (StFX only)

Health and Development

• Bambra, C., Fox, D. & Scott-Samuel, A. (2005). Towards a politics of health. Health Promotion International, 20(2). (StFX only)
• Clark, R. (2011). World health inequality: Convergence, divergence, and development. Social Science & Medicine, 72(4), 617-624. (StFX only)
• Ocean, C. (2005). Policies of exclusion, poverty & health. Podcasts available for download.
• United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals reports, 2005-2015.

Health and Trade

• Blouin, C., Chopra, M., & van der Hoeven, R. (2009). Trade and social determinants of health. The Lancet, 373/9662, 502-507. (StFX only)
• Fidler, D., Drager, N. & Lee, K. (2009). Managing the pursuit of health and wealth: the key challenges. The Lancet, 373/9660, 325-331. (StFX only)
• Lee, K., Sridhar, D., & Patel, M. (2009). Bridging the divide: Global governance of trade and health. The Lancet, 373/9661, 416-422. (StFX only)
• Legge, D., Sanders, D., & McCoy, D. (2009). Trade and health: the need for a political economic analysis.The Lancet, 373/9663, 527-529. (StFX only)
• MacDonald, R. & Horton, R. (2009). Trade and health: time for the health sector to get involved. The Lancet, 373/9660, 273-274. (StFX only)
• Smith, R., Chanda, R., & Tangcharoensathien, V. (2009). Trade in health-related services. The Lancet, 373/9663, 593-601. (StFX only)
• Smith, R., Correa, C., & Oh, C. (2009). Trade, TRIPS, and pharmaceuticals. The Lancet, 373/9664, 684-691. (StFX only)
• Smith, R., Lee, K., & Drager, N. (2009). Trade and health: an agenda for action. The Lancet, 373/9665, 768-773. (StFX only)
• Songkhla, M. N. (2009). Health before profits? Learning from Thailand’s experience. The Lancet, 373/9662, 441-442. (StFX only)
• Stiglitz, J. E. (2009). Trade agreements and health in developing countries. The Lancet, 373/9661, 363-365. (StFX only)

Human Rights and Health

• Health GAP (Global Access Project) is an organization of AIDS and human rights activists campaigning against the denial of treatment, funding of AIDS treatment programs, and the spread of HIV.
• Health and Human Rights Journal is open access and published by the Harvard School of Public Health.

Men’s Roles in Health

• Promoting gender equality: Engaging men and boys, resources from UNFPA.

Mental Health

• Mental health, WHO resource page.

Planning and Evaluation

• Fawcett, S., Nagy, J., et al. (n.d.).  Our evaluation model: Evaluating comprehensive community initiatives. Community Toolbox, University of Kansas.

Primary Health Care

• Balabanova, D., McKee, M. & Mills, A. (2011). ‘Good health at low cost’ 25 years on: What makes a successful health system?. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Download by chapter. (5.65 Mb pdf)
• Johnson, A., et al. (2012). Hidden costs: The direct and indirect impact of user fees on access to malaria treatment and primary care in Mali. Social Science & Medicine, 75(10). (StFX only)

Social Determinants of Health

• Bryant, T., Raphael, D., Schrecker, T., & Labonte, R. (2011). Canada: A land of missed opportunity for addressing the social determinants of health. Health Policy, 101(1), 44-58. (StFX only)
• Czyzewski, K. (2011). Colonialism as a broader social determinant of health. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2(1). (282K pdf)
• Mikkonen, J. & Raphael, D. (2010). Social determinants of health: The Canadian facts. York University School of Health Policy and Management. (4.31 Mb pdf)
  • Additional resources
• Morrison, V. (2015). Health inequalities and intersectionality (Briefing note). National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy. (667K pdf)
• Raphael, D., Curry-Stevens, A., & Bryant, T. (2008). Barriers to addressing the social determinants of health: Insights from the Canadian experience. Health Policy, 88(2-3), 222-235. (StFX only)
• Reading, C. L. & Wien, F. (2009). Health inequalities and social determinants of Aboriginal peoples’ health. National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health. (1.68 Mb pdf)
• Resource articles as recommended by the documentary series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?. The series explores racial and socioeconomic inequalities in health.
• Simpson, R. & Davies, T. (2011). Without walls: Towards health and well-being in the twenty-first century. Socialist Health Association.
• Social determinants of health, World Health Organizations’s collection of resources.

Women and Health

• Freedman, L.P., et al. (2005). Transforming health systems to improve the lives of women and children. The Lancet, 365/9463, 997-1000. (StFX only)
• Nair, S., Kirbat, P. & Sexton, S. (2004). A decade after Cairo: Women’s health in a free market economy (Briefing no. 31). The Corner House. (198K pdf)
• Osmani, S. & Sen. A. (2002). The hidden penalties of gender inequality: Fetal origins of ill-health. Economics & Human Biology, 1(1), 105-121. (StFX only)

Videos

• Al Jazeera English. (2007). Every woman – child soldier [Video]. A documentary on child soldiers with emphasis on girl soldiers. (12:09 min.)
• Gender and the MDGs, UNIFEM video series highlights MDGs from a gender perspective.
• Imam, P. (2004). Health for all? [Video]. The one question that forms the basis of our movement. (1:15 min.)
• Imam, P. (2006). Sentenced for a lifetime [Video]. This documentary explores the issue of mental illness in women in India. (3:20 min.)
• Imam, P. (2007). Flight 208 [Video]. A satirical film concerning inequalities and filmed across the globe. (7:07 min.)

Health-Related Organizations and Sources

• CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN)
• Contact Magazine, issues available: 1998-present.
• Globalization and Health, an open-access journal. Issues available: 2005-current.
• Health Canada, the federal department responsible for assisting Canadians with maintaining and improving their health.
• HealthWrights is committed to advancing the health, basic rights, social equality, and self-determination of disadvantaged persons and groups.
• Hesperian Health Guides is a non-profit publisher of books and newsletters for community-based health care.
• Human development reports, published by UNDP. Issues available: 1990-current.
• Indigenous Health, Government of Canada’s information about health care services and non-insured health benefits, careers, how to fight drug and substance use, environmental health, food safety and how to have a healthy pregnancy.
• Just for You – Immigrants, Government of Canada’s health care information page for immigrants.
• Medact speaks for people whose health, wellbeing and access to proper health care are compromised by war, poverty and environmental damage.
• Public Health Agency of Canada, promotes and protects the health of Canadians.
• Science and Development Network is dedicated to providing information about science and technology for the developing world.
• UNICEF, building a world where the rights of every child are realized.
• Wemos Foundation: Health for All strives to improve people’s health in developing countries.
• World Health Organization, the authority for health in the United Nations system.